Keeping Apace with a Growing Town From Our Own Correspondent, Chengchow, Ho., Oct. 1.
At Chengchow Honan—the crossing of the Peking-Hankow and the Lung Hai railways—a Young Men's Christian Association building has been provided by the manager of the Vu Foong Cotton Mill, Mr. H. Y. Moh of Shanghai. The building and its equipment has been loaned to the National Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations of China for a period of years for Association work for the young men of Chengchow. With plans for the early completion of the Lung Hai railway to the coast at Haichow, and west to Sianfu, Shensi, Chengchow is already spoken of as the "Hankow" of central North China, Land has increased 100 per cent, in value in the past ten years. Cotton mi ug plants, Standard Oi Oil, British-American Tobacco, three railway offices, telegraph relay offices, bank, ete, ete. have already been' established in Chengchow.
Two trained Chinese secretaries, Messrs. 8. 8. Zung and Chang, and one foreign secretary, M. B. W. Smith, have been assigned to the work in Chengchow. The building is rapidly being put into condition for the formal opening on October 90. Mr, David Z. T. Yui, General Secretary of ' the Y.M.C.A. work in China, will be present for the opening.
The work of the Association will include outdoor games, sports, baths, barber shop, billiards, other indoor games, moving and still pictures, and other indoor social features, rooms for Chinese and foreign transients, Chinese and foreign food, an' English night school, a special class in Northern Kuan Hua, veading room for books and magazines, besides the usual Association religious—programme of Bible study and religious work.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.